Discard

My first foray into the art of luminographs, Discard utilized the least likely of darkroom accessories as a capture method: the trashcan. During my years as a photographic lab technician, I often found 'jewels' of pure photographic abstraction sitting in the trash.

Often combining the still-latent imagery with the cross-contamination of spilled chemistry and the random coffee or soda, these slips of paper the size of concert tickets often held within them otherworldly miniature scenes. I collected these items at the end of my shift, taking care to scan them immediately, as my knowledge of the photographic process told me that any extended exposure to light would fog the paper and ruin the images. Thus, Discard was born via the process of chance and the inherent waste from the darkroom microcosm.